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gpu wrapper to add fog table and palettized textures emulation?

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First post, by awgamer

Posted on 2016-05-04, 15:40

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nvidia did(still do?) fog table emulation, and palettized textures emulation is around as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19695658/e … l-v-s-canvas-2d

Looking into why x gpu is best for old games and was wondering if there was a project out there that does this, a wrapper that adds these and passes the rest.

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Reply 1 of 8, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-05-04, 22:27

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dgVoodoo2 can probably do it, despite the name implying it's strictly a glide wrapper, it's a D3D wrapper (up to 8) as well.

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Reply 2 of 8, by awgamer

Posted on 2016-05-05, 00:27

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Woah, it already does them, as noted in the readmedirectx.txt, so no need to buy specific older cards to get these effects.

Reply 3 of 8, by DracoNihil

Posted on 2016-05-05, 17:49

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Would be great if there was something on the Linux side of things to handle this.

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Reply 4 of 8, by awgamer

Posted on 2016-05-05, 22:13

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wine?

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Posted on 2016-05-06, 00:08

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Wine doesn't do this...?

EDIT: I hit post too hastily.

WineD3D doesn't do a good job of handling ancient Direct3D to OpenGL, atleast for wine 1.8 and my experiences with it and open source radeon drivers. It does nothing to handle table fog or paletted textures that I know of. Hellbender is quite broken even under WineD3D.

There's also the issue of OpenGL 1.x games performing poorly ontop of that.

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Reply 6 of 8, by awgamer

Posted on 2016-05-06, 00:31

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Hmm, I wonder if dgvoodoo2 would run under wine.

Reply 7 of 8, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-05-06, 01:01

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But then you'd be wrapping Direct3D<9 to Direct3D10.1 to OpenGL.

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Reply 8 of 8, by awgamer

Posted on 2016-05-06, 01:15

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If it works though:)

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